Ivory snuff bottle with relief carving of two dragons between two bands of louts petals on the shoulder and around the foot rim. It has a matching ivory stopper and spoon, the bottle is hollowed and on a stand.

The white glazed dish probably Ding ware type, with gray blue hue, glazed in same color on the exterior close to brown foot rim and the bottom. With light brown gray staining interior and more prominent stain near the bottom probably caused while...

The white glazed dish probably Ding ware type bowl with light reddish brown crackle, interior has reddish or orangy brown patches of stain and the exterior has similar type staining on the white glaze. The exterior glaze comes up to the foot rim....

A Tibetan parcel gilt silver teapot of generally baroque shape and proportion. The teapot is rounded in shape. It has been raised and has applied finial, handle, base, spout liner, and decorative collars and trim. The rim of the opening to the pot...

A nephrite jade winepot in the shape of a European teapot. The coloration of the stone is mottled celadon and gray with russet veins and sprinkling of black. The top rim and foot rim are of undulating shape. The cover, which fits neatly onto pot...

This small bowl and lid belong to a group of enamelled porcelain wares known as famille verte because of the predominance of varied greens in their color palette. The faces and hands are precisely outlined in red. In additon to green and red,...

Bronze ritual drinking vessel. A slender stem is banded on the lower portion and rises to a flared mouth. The foot is splayed and hollow on the inside. Two calligraphy characters created by thin lines of metal appear in the inner portion of the...

Glazed jar of richly shaded blues with some tinges of green. Its shape is a tapering ovoid form with a flat style shoulder sloping up into a narrow, short cylindrical neck. The exterior design, freely drawn, is subtle and features a man wearing a...

Almost ox-blood red glaze over buff earthenware ground. On upper part exterior body molded rings. Six drips on exterior near bottom. An engraved but indecipherable signature of the potter just above the foot on an unglazed area. 1. bowl 2. wooden...

Kutani stoneware dish, designed with a rural scene of Chinese figure and a young attendant standing in foreground next to a group of trees by the shore of a river. Distant mountain peaks. Exterior sides with foliated floral design. Kutani fuku mark...

Miniature traditional Yi lacquerware ceremonial dish set of 20 pieces in wooden case. The pieces of the set are lacquered in red and yellow on black ground creating quasi-geometrical design. They are miniatures of utensils used by the Yi Minority...

""White vase with immortal design"": Fine porcelain rouleau vase designed with the Eight Immortals and two attendants. Butterflies appear on the vase neck, and floral fret border patterns are around the opining side edge, shoulder, and above the...

Well and delicately built jar with flat lid, designed with three carved bands on the shoulder where loop ears are located in very pale celadon with yellow hue of qing pai glaze over stoneware. It is glazed to the foot rim.

A fine example of earthenware freely painted on both exterior and interior with black and white pigment in form of lines, circles, dashes and curvilinear forms, some resembling eyes, and leaf patterns. This type of pottery was made by building up...

Well formed stoneware with powerful handle from very slightly flared cylindrical neck to below the shoulder, two small double strap side lug-handles with glaze drip and straight ""screw-threaded"" short spout, cross-hatched design under the glaze...

Fine porcelain pear-shaped bottle vase with dark red, mauve-purple glaze under the opening rim, interior and base glazed in warm white, the surface with ""orange peel"" texture and a splash of bright orange-red toward the foot of the vase. Attached...